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Government In Greece SS.A.2.4.4; SS.B.2.4.3-6 The Polis: Center of Greek Life Polis: Greek name for city-states, and the surrounding countryside The meeting place in every polis was usually a fortified area, atop a hill, called acropolis, with an agora below The polis was a community made of citizens with rights (adult males), citizens with no rights (women and children) and non-citizens (slaves and foreigners) Ancient Greek Military Greek Colonies 750-550 B.C.: Many Greeks leave Greece to settle in other, far-away lands in order to expand trade, and find good farmlands Colonies were founded